Editing Château (section)

=== Château de Montsoreau ===
The [[Château de Montsoreau]] is the only [[châteaux of the Loire Valley|Château of the Loire Valley]] to have been built directly in the [[Loire]] riverbed. It is also one of the first example of a [[renaissance architecture]] in France.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Congrès Archéologique de France|last=Litoux|first=Emmanuel|publisher=Société Française d'Archéologie|year=2003|pages=255}}</ref> Montsoreau was built in 1453 by Jean II de Chambes (first counsellor of [[Charles VII of France]] and ambassador of France to [[Venice]] and to [[Turkey]]) by order of the king soon after the end of the Hundred years war. The French dramatist [[Alexandre Dumas]] made the château de Montsoreau world famous with his trilogy on the [[French Wars of Religion]] of which ''[[La Dame de Monsoreau|the lady of Monsoreau]]'' is the second volume.<ref name="dumaspere.com">{{cite web|language=fr|title=La Dame de Monsoreau|url=http://www.dumaspere.com/pages/dictionnaire/dame_monsoreau.html|publisher=dumaspere.com|year=1998|access-date=18 March 2019|archive-date=11 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811135147/http://www.dumaspere.com/pages/dictionnaire/dame_monsoreau.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:0 Maincy - Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (2).JPG|thumb|Château de [[Vaux-le-Vicomte]]]]